Purple Magazine Hosts a Dinner With The Standard at Narcissa

“This issue is about sex," said Olivier Zahm at the Purple magazine dinner with The Standard, East Village last night. “It’s about how sex is related to fashion, how fashion is related to sex, and it’s about fetishism.”

Zahm was speaking to changes in social context. “Before, fetish was meant for men, and now, that’s not the case anymore,” he explained. He was also talking about community and diversity, and the ways in which his community comes together, in particular.

As always, Purple’s crowd of friends-cum-family showed up in strength to toast the new issue and feast at Narcissa. “We’ve been hanging out for 15 years,” said the artist Casey Spooner, as Chloë Sevigny took a seat to his left and Kim Gordon made her way to a booth in the back.

“People are very friendly because of this political context,” said Zahm, as Lindsey Wixson, Lucien Smith, Jamie Bochert, and others helped themselves to olive-oil-poached halibut and grilled octopus. “So, it’s a community. The community is not just friendly, it’s also political in a way. We share so many things. It was always about competition here, but I can feel that New York is maybe more cheerful.”